Author: harald

Don’t Miss this beautuful album which originally appeared on the Nagual boxed set. Limited to 100 copies.

Whilst travelling through the USA and Canada on a tour in 1996 I found a tin of rolling tobacco in a truck stop store in one of the Southern states. This doesn’t sound like much of an incident but I was four or five weeks into the tour and at the time I was a chain smoker and all of my European tobacco had gone and i was trying to smoke the dry tinder that passed for rolling tobacco in the US. I spotted the Tin of Drum tobacco on a shelf and was almost overcome with a kind of silly joy. It looked to me like I had found the holy grail.

I gave up smoking many years ago. I kept the tin, to remind me. Nowadays I feel the same sense of joy when I look at the sea, paint a good picture, hear my children laugh. Times change…I went looking for America and found a Tin of Drum. Hallelujah…

Revisiting some of the same places 15 years later I found the world had homogenised and what had once been unfamiliar and intriguing had become familiar and of less interest. Only the deserts and the stars in the deserts remained unchanged. The second disc is about the deserts. -Robin Storey

Limited edition 450 copies in 6-panel digipak

Into the void was made over the autumn and winter months of 2014-2015. It’s basically a diary of sound from that time, and tells the tales of weekends spent with friends, cooking good food and drinking fine wine, watching old movies to bike rides at night. Into the Void evokes the dark days and nights of a foggy autumn then the coming frosts and snow of winter. Some of the tracks are quite meditative which is perfect for midnight and sleep music. Stormloop paints the picture of bitter cold winter nights from the comfort of home. Limited to 100 copies.

Re-released on glass mastered CD by demand from the …txt mailing list.

This is part of all the CDR albums reissued on the label.

Limited to just 100 glass mastered CDs.

Night Works conveys a range of emotions that the closing twilight hours can often bring. Deep soundscapes shift like moonlight as shadows in darkness crawl across a lost landscape. Occasionally there’s a sense of melodic comfort, like being cocooned in the warm atmosphere of your own home while some moments invite you to venture outside to witness the nocturnal activities of a vast darkness. Like a storm from nowhere, strange unidentified frequencies emerge in the distance and converse like a room of spirits that echo the sound of past nightmares. Glimmers of light appear as cities dream of hi-rise sunsets.

We live in municipal districts, conjunctions of human energy and industrial processes. Our mind is constantly provoked by mechanical and technically produced sounds, smells and visual impacts. We long for a place of peace and contemplation.’ ‘Music for Urban Meditation II’ guides us to our inner center. Urban sound patterns detached of known coherences, lead us back to our origin in a miraculous way. Technical and industrial striking sounds are fitted into the over all and universal order of wisdom. Former strangeness is dissolved and a new conciousness is given motive. Textures of sound are woven gently with each other, organic sound carpets arise, which wrap us up and give us shelter in this harsh and sharp-edged reality of our urban existence. With ‘Music for Urban Meditation II’ industry is transformed into nature and technique to our self. The album invites you to let yourself go into an up-to-date meditation which complies to our modern culture. Urban Meditation – A Place of Peace

These recordings began with playing Xpand 2, the software instrument included in Pro Tools. I was listening to the electric piano instruments and tried out a few different settings until I got the sound that became the inspirational building block for these compositions. A kind of sonar ping. Lost, lonesome. A sound resonant with searching and finding. A hopeful enquiry sent into the depths awaiting reply. I was reminded of listening to Pink Floyd’s Meddle when I was a youngster and the emotional impact sounds and music had when i was just a listener. Just listening is an important part of composition. Karlheinz Stockhausen said as much. So did the guys in Can. Just listening is sometimes the hardest thing you can do. Just listening is sometimes the most important and rewarding thing you can do. In these recordings I tried to just listen. The sea ebbed and flowed.tags